Nat McCully

I manage and contribute to the Adobe Text Engine project, which ships in most of the Adobe Creative products and supports professional-quality text layout for all languages

Manager of Typography and Fonts for Creative Cloud client software (apps, etc). Driving the implementation of Type-related components and features integrated into apps such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Xd, etc., for desktop, mobile and web. I also manage the Adobe Text Engine team, which is the core text layout engine found in most of the products in Creative Cloud. Responsible for Japanese, Korean and Chinese text layout engine requirements. Co-editor of the W3C I18n WG document, JLReq.

Sr. Engineering Mgr, Creative Cloud Product Experience: Manager of the Unified Extensibility Platform integration with Adobe Xd. Contributor to W3C JLReq v2 documenting requirements for Japanese language layout Contributor to Japanese text engine support in Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Xd, etc.) Manager of the Core Unified Extensibility Platform team (supporting MacOS, Win32, UWP, iOS, Android). We work on a new native framework for app development, and Adobe Spark native Android app development. Sr. Engineering Mgr, Creative Cloud Platform: Manager of the mobile (iOS and Android) team. We work on a new native framework for app development, and Adobe Spark app development. Sr. Engineering Mgr, AEM Mobile Apps: I drove the iOS and Android app development teams for Adobe Experience Manager Mobile, a part of the Marketing Cloud multi-channel solution for creating engaging mobile apps for the enterprise. We also owned the InDesign plug-ins for DPS/AEM Mobile content authoring. Sr. Engineering Mgr, Digital Publishing Suite: I managed the Beijing engineering team of DPS, a cross-functional team that added features on services and viewers for customers worldwide. Managed engineering for a special project—the Fast Company iOS app and associated custom-built content ingestion services, that demonstrated article-centric streams presented in an innovative and optimized mobile experience.

Manager of the Digital Publishing and Platform Engineering teams at Adobe Japan. Worked on the leading authoring and end-user solutions for publishing digital content on the desktop and devices for the Japanese market. My C++ implementation work included adding functionality to support Japanese, Chinese and Korean text in the Flash Runtime (Flash Player, AIR, etc) on MacOS, Windows, Linux and mobile platforms. Developed applications and services that are built on the Flash Runtime. Located in Tokyo.

Working on Adobe Text Technology Team, responsible for implementation of the text composition engine for Asian languages, globalization issues, envisioning future direction of Asian text and workflow support in Adobe products. Lead engineer on InDesign (1.0, 2.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4) for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean layout and publishing workflows. Designed and implemented new features specific to Japanese publishing market. Conducted numerous studies of client workflows in Japan, created new technology to support re-creation of traditional and proprietary graphic design and typography on ordinary computers.

Lead Text engineer on AppleWorks 6 (worldwide release) Advised MacOS Internationalization Team on application issues, Japanese text handling conventions and requirements Managed archival of source code of EOL Claris products and incremental releases of Japanese versions of Claris software (Claris Impact-J, ClarisDraw-J etc.).

Engineering Lead on ClarisWorks-J (4.0, 5.0) Wrote specifications for, designed and implemented Japanese-specific features in various products: MacWrite II-J, MacDraw Pro-J, FileMaker Pro-J, ClarisWorks-J, ClarisDraw-J, Claris Impact-J, Claris ClearChoice products, XTND file filters Technical Test Engineer on Claris Japanese products QA Lead on ClarisWorks-J 1.0 QA Engineer on MacWrite II-J 1.5, FileMaker II-J